Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20

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Subject: [Leica] First computer
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Tue Mar 20 08:09:51 2007
References: <200703182153.l2ILooKT070239@server1.waverley.reid.org> <724FDD310638E147AD8E509D15FFB731AC12A5@exchange.microassist.local> <45FF1656.1050808@summaventures.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20070319195714.024b06b0@comporium.net> <6FAEA8E3-D452-49E0-9E87-4A6B6B84CB77@charter.net> <200703200230.l2K2UBM1061182@server1.waverley.reid.org> <4cfa589b0703192316g361f7e97rb44aaadb8aad5791@mail.gmail.com>
 
At 02:16 AM 3/20/2007, Adam Bridge wrote:
 >TRS-80's were ROM based, Marc. They had a BASIC in ROM. Their mass
 >storage was to cassette. There was a 2nd generation (and beyond) that
 >had a DOS but I don't remember what it was. I don't think it was CP/M.

Thanks, Adam.

The "laptop" that Radio Shack marketed in the 
early 1980's was a CP/M machine.  I went from a 
Sinclair to a Commodore 64 to one of those 
laptops (model number forgotten) to my first PC.

Marc


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